Karadakara
Karadakara was held on the 3rd of November and of course I participated. Many of my friends and even Ruedi-sensei came to see the dance performance.
This was the third time for me to take part in Karadakara, because I have belonged to Mie University’s Dance Club for three years. This year I performed in eight stages, that is, KARADAKARA Ⅹ Prologue, DATSUGOKU, Saru, Yadokari-no-Yuutsu, Legend of the Princess, Watashi-wo-Ikiru, Karadakara Ⅹ, and Finale.
We (the Dance Club) used a lot of images on the screen at the back of the stage in the Prologue, and I think that they enhanced our performance and made it more attractive for the audience. Since the Prologue was the beginning of Karadakara, it tried to get the audience interested in our dancing.
DATSUGOKU means prison breaking. We imitated escaped convicts and pretended we were running away from the prison we had just broken out of.
I wore monkey clothes to perform Saru (monkey). While I was dancing, I threw away the banana which I had made. I hope that people laughed or chuckled at my comical behavior.
We danced Yadokari-no-Yuutsu in Kobe this summer and passed the trial game. We use big painted barrels to imitate the hermit crab (yadokari). The barrel stands not for a rock but for the shell which that crab always wears. The weight of the biggest one is almost ten kilograms and the girls of the Dance Club can lift it over their heads with their arms! Through the performance of the Hermit Crab, we wanted the audience to understand the depression (yuutsu) which all people sometimes feel in their daily life.
In the ‘Legend of the Princess’, I performed the second strongest villain and, of course, Miwa-san was the heavy queen and the strongest of all the villains. The villains carry off the beautiful princess from the hero and try to defeat the party of the hero who are chasing the princess to save her from the queen, but they fail. After that, the hero fights against the queen (Miwa-san) and he loses at last. Then, the beautiful princess gets angry with his defeat and she beats the strongest queen! This story is a piece of comedy and I heard that people laughed at the performance.
I wore a pink dress which I made by myself in Watashi-wo-Ikiru. The girls want to decide which way they should proceed, but they don’t have the confidence to do that. They go through the conflict again and again, then they become independent and find their own ways.
Karadakara Ⅹ is the hardest dance of all, I think. We practiced it many many times, even though we felt tired. All the dancers of the university’s Dance Club and the alumni/alumnae took part in it.
In the Finale, we danced not on the stage but on each step of the aisles. We appreciated the audience coming to see and enjoying our performance. During the Finale, I thought that I did my best!!
Maybe this will be the last time for me to join Karadakara, for I’ll be a senior next spring and won’t have much time to dance with my peers. I don’t want to admit it, but I must study harder than ever to find a job…
Anyway, I hope that everybody who saw Karadakara had a good time on the evening of Nov. 3rd.
Comments
Hiroko,
Did Koshio-kun dance with you? I saw him driving to Tsu on the day of your performance. Did he go there just to see your dance or…?
Oh, the Queen was Miwa-san? You know, after the show when everyone was chatting in the lobby an exhausted but smiling face floated out of the crowd, came up to me and said, “Hi!” I didn’t recognise her and asked if we’d met before, then she said she was Miwa. I had never seen her so happy in class =)
Thanks again, all of you, for a truly entertaining set of performances; there was so much pace, energy and variety on that stage!
>Did Koshio-kun dance with you?
Yes, Kosshi-san danced with me in the Finale. Since he is a member of C-drei, which the group that the alumni/alumnae who graduated from Mie-u. a few years ago join, he also performed with his peers.
>Oh, the Queen was Miwa-san?
Yes, of course. She performed the strongest villain(queen) who wears wine-colored dress.
Thank you very much for your performance, Hiroko. I was impressed by your dancing. When you were dancing, you looked a different person! Especially I loved the monkey dance. The monkey suit looked very good on you and was so cute.
Hiroko Kuze :: November 9, 2003
Nice to meet you!
I’m Hiroko (which is the same name as yours). I graduated from Mie University three years ago. Of course, my major was English!
I have been a fan of “karadakara” for ten years. I started going to the show when I was a high school student, as it were, I watched all of “karadakara”. The performance always gives me power!
You are a member of the dancing club! How nice you are! The performance this time was cool, I think!
Your writing about making “karadakara” was very interesting!
I hope that I’ll see you somewhere.
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Sounds like a great performance, if I was there (I wish I was :D) I would say you’re a great actress! :)